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Taking It To K Street

It's a wet, rainy day in Washington D.C. Enough to soak anyone who stands outside long enough. But it wasn't enough to put out the fiery anger of hundreds of activists who took to the streets of the capitol today, to deliver a message to Wall Street's K Street...

Are Public Employee Unions Strangling Us?

For Billionaire Mort Zuckerman it’s those damn unions that are the problem. For so many of the rest of us the problem is that we don't have a union. Zuckerman has been with us on lots of things, like what he wrote about the stimulus, “The fiscal program was a...

Progressive Breakfast: Crunch Time For Bank Reform

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Reid may move today to schedule...

Progressive Breakfast - 5/17/2010

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Reid may move today to schedule...

'Overtaxation': Our Phoniest Problem?

Friends of the financially fortunate are trying to turn reality upside-down — and save our undertaxed rich mega billions in the process. But two new sets of data can help us set the record straight. Taxes on the wealthy in the United States run low. Many wealthy...

Climate Change: Four Futures

As the debate over the climate bill heats up, there's one rule of thumb that may help you keep your bearings as the rhetoric becomes more gaseous and the weeds grow ever higher around the facts. It's this: There are, in the end, only four possible futures here. Future...

Congress FAILs On Jobs AGAIN!

It is hard to imagine out here in the real world, but there seem to be people in the Congress who think they can get (or deserve to be) re-elected when they are failing to do anything about jobs or extending unemployment and COBRA with unemployment at 10%,...

Progressive Breakfast: Senate Floor or Back Room?

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Senate Leaders May Save Derivatives...

Progressive Breakfast - 5/14/2010

Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Senate Leaders May Save Derivatives...

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